Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3102 Section 001: Chaucer (31887)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
MEST 3102 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 211
Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Major/representative works written by Chaucer, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the dream visions. Historical, intellectual, and cultural background of the poems. Language, poetic theory, form.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ascheil+ENGL3102+Fall2018
Class Description:
This course surveys the major works of the late medieval author Geoffrey Chaucer. The vitality of Chaucer's poetry has spoken powerfully to every generation of English readers since the fourteenth century. Perhaps best known as one of the finest comic authors in English, Chaucer was not only a great writer of satire and comedy, but also composed wonderful examples of almost all the major medieval genres: romances of chivalry and courtly love, epic, pious tales of saints and sinners, philosophy, lyric poems, sermons and tales of far-away places. Since Chaucer's work ranged so broadly, the class will not only be an in-depth study of one immensely talented and influential author, but also an introduction to medieval culture. One cannot read all of Chaucer's works in one semester; we will concentrate on his great epic of betrayed love set in the Trojan War (Troilus and Criseyde) and substantial selections from his final masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. We will read all of these works in Middle English, the variety of English written and spoken circa. 1100-1500. Middle English seems hard at first, but (with guidance) students quickly become used to it. The course will also, therefore, function as a partial introduction to the history of the English language.
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31887/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
31 March 2014

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